Weeping wounds

TWO young boys have been quizzed by police after a pensioner's head was cracked open by a ride-on toy digger dropped from a bridge. Alan Taylor's skull was exposed and he lost almost two pints of blood after the toy came crashing down onto his head. The 69-year-old was walking his dog on September 23 in Hemlington, Middlesborough, when he walked through an underpass. According to the pensioner, he glanced up and "saw a young face" and then the next minute blood was pouring down his head. He described the pain as "a bomb going off", and that the attack "could have killed him". Two Good Samaritans rushed Alan, from Limlington, to hospital where he received 11 stitches. A Cleveland Police spokesman confirmed two 10-year-old boys have been interviewed over the incident. Speaking after his ordeal, Alan said: "The doctor and my son said you could see my skull, I had to go through the pain of no anaesthetic, it was agony getting the stitches in. "The first thought was how am I going to get … [Read more...] about Boys, 10, quizzed by cops after toy tractor thrown off bridge left grandad with wound so deep his SKULL was exposed

A mum with such severe eczema that it left her hospitalised with weeping wounds claims to have found a 'miracle cure' to soothe her skin - by inhaling CBD oil through a vape pen. Cheryl Halliburton, 27, has suffered from severe eczema flare-ups on her face and neck every few days, after falling pregnant with her daughter Alexis, now three. The skin condition left Cheryl with red, sore skin, that cracked open, causing sore, open wounds, and made her so ill and self-conscious she would be left unable to leave the house. At her wit's end Cheryl decided to try CBD oil, a naturally occurring cannabinoid found in cannabis, and found it had a remarkable effect on her skin after inhaling the natural remedy through a vape pen. Cheryl, a careworker from Elgin, Scotland, said: "It really began when I fell pregnant with Alexis when I was around 23 years old. "It started on my back and cleared up after a course of steroids but straight away it flared up on my face and neck and has been constant … [Read more...] about Woman finds ‘miracle cure’ to extreme, weeping eczema in cannabis oil vape pen

By Louise RoseingraveThe mother of murdered criminal Jason Molyneux wept in the witness box at the opening of an inquest into her son’s death. Elizabeth Molyneux formally identified her son’s body to detectives after he was shot dead on January 30 last.The 27-year-old, from North William Street, was shot six times in the chest and stomach after he went to meet someone at James Larkin House flats complex at 9.45pm.He was taken to the Mater Hospital but pronounced dead there a short time later.The father-of-one was well known to gardaí for his involvement in serious and organised crime and had more than 120 convictions.At Dublin Coroner's Court Detective Garda John O’Donovan said he formally identified Mr Molyneux to State Pathologist Professor Marie Cassidy at the City Morgue on January 31, 2018, the day after the fatal shooting.Prof Cassidy conducted an autopsy on the body and gave the cause of death as multiple gunshot wounds.Inspector Seamus D’Alton of … [Read more...] about Criminal Jason Molyneux’s mother weeps as inquest hears he died of multiple gunshot wounds

A man broke down in court after being cleared of murder 27 years after he was wrongly convicted as a teenager. John Bunn, now 41, wept as he thanked a New York judge for exonerating him of the 1991 shooting of correction officer Rolando Neischer. He was just 14 when arrested over the killing and spent 17 years in prison after being convicted of murder based on tainted evidence. Read more Man wrongly convicted and jailed for 31 years awarded $1m compensation Mr Bunn, from Brooklyn, was released on parole in 2009 but continued to fight to clear his name. He was cleared after a retired detective who investigated Neischer’s murder was accused of manipulating evidence, coercing confessions and giving misleading testimony in multiple cases. Mr Bunn and his friend Rosean Hargrave, then 17, were convicted of killing Neischer on the testimony of lone witness Robert Crosson, another correction officer who survived the shooting. The teenagers were placed in a photo line-up by … [Read more...] about Man jailed at 14 for murder he didn’t commit weeps in court as he is cleared 27 years later

The summer is cranking into full gear, though the weather isn’t exactly playing along — a shame that the rain washed out that first Test cricket game in Dublin over the weekend, of which more elsewhere. Summer also means GAA’s inter-county season cranks up. This means a million conversations have their starting point for the next couple of months, but it also means the GAA columnist faces the inevitable rise and fall of his natural rhythms. Preoccupations! Theories! Unlikely references? A brief timeline. May: the summer opens like a magnificent weeping wound and the columnist is full of hope. And equivocation. The prospect of a bolter from the pack bursting to an All-Ireland title, however remote, stains the columnist’s predictions for the season. With an effort he prevaricates, but eventually succumbs to the inevitable. He says you write Kilkenny off at your peril. He adds that Dublin remain in pole position. If he’s blindsided by a wedding or one of … [Read more...] about Players aren’t the only ones sweating